Wounded warriors
Further explorations into a biocultural semiotics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4473911 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn Staiano-Ro, Kathryn Staiano-Ross (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 2007 |
| Issue | 166 |
| Pages | 1-44 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/sem.2006.050 |
| OpenAlex | W2037938537 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 37 |
Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Within five days, forty-one countries began deploying troops to Saudia Arabia in a buildup of mass manpower and weaponry. On the morning of January 16, 1991, Coalition troops began intensive air strikes. On February 24, 1991, the ground war began. It lasted a mere one hundred hours. There were 148 combat deaths among Coalition troops. Troops were home by June. It had been by all accounts the ‘perfect war.’ A few months later, Coalition troops began to complain of strange symptoms. Within a year of the soldiers return, the press had created a disease which as yet had no ‘biomarkers’ and an unbounded set of symptoms. They called it Gulf War Syndrome. I write here about a process whereby a new ‘disease’ was created and two competing etiologies battled for primacy for the right to explain the nature and cause of this mystery ‘illness.’ This is about differing methods of seeing inside the body and the ways in which knowledge about disorder is produced
Ancient history · Archaeology · Economic history · Epistemology · Gulf war · Political science · Semiotics · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Empathy and Medical Education · Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research · Health, psychology, and well-being · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |